Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in US cities. We report results from
a randomized controlled trial (N= 2,456) of a community-researcher partnership called the …

Policing in the USA is highly decentralized. Variation in the jurisdictional and organizational
structure of policing agencies can theoretically lead to different decisions about how these …

For more than three decades, developmental and life-course criminology has been a source
of theoretical advancement, methodological innovation, and policy and practice guidance …

Do highly publicized police killings of civilians have a widespread effect on policing
activities? Focusing on such incidents in the United States during 2014–2016 and adopting …

Objectives Gangs are thought to enhance participation in violence. It is expected then that
gang-related violent crimes trigger additional crimes in a contagious manner, above and …

During the last decade, while national homicide rates have remained flat, New York City has
experienced a second great crime decline, with gun violence declining by more than 50 …

Technology has ushered in a new era of intelligence-led and 'big data'policing, and police
gang databases are part of this paradigmatic shift. In recent years, however, gang databases …

Objectives For more than one hundred years, street lighting has been one of the most
ubiquitous capital investments in public safety. Prior research on street lighting is largely …

Observational evidence suggests that better ambient lighting leads people to feel safer
when spending time outdoors in their community. We subject this finding to greater scrutiny …

Objective Place-based blight remediation programs have gained popularity in recent years
as a crime reduction approach. This study estimated the impact of a citywide vacant lot …